Wikipedia posting is eerie twist in Benoit case

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ATLANTA - Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.

Benoit’s Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say that the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife’s death.

A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Conn., where World Wrestling Entertainment is based.

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I read that too on yahoo news. It's very creepy indeed and makes you wonder. I wish him and his family would've had a respectable death...not the murder suicide that seems to have been the case......according to the media.

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Why couldn't Benoit himself have edited the entry? What's so far-fetched about that?

See, that's what I would have said too, but seeing as he was not anywhere near that IP address, it makes it a bit harder. I doubt he used IP editing software, and even if he did, his 'new' IP would likely be from another country, like Korea or China.

So it's either some sicko who can edit time stamps, or there's someone else out there who was privy to what he would be doing.